Mother Receives Life Sentence for the Death of Her 17-Month-Old Son

 A New Jersey woman convicted of murder in the death of her 17-month-old son 4 1/2 years ago has been sentenced to life in prison without possibility of parole, authorities said.

Judge Gwendolyn Blue also sentenced Heather Reynolds, 45, of Sicklervile last week to concurrent terms on child endangerment and drug counts, the Camden County prosecutor’s office said. Reynolds was convicted of the crimes in July but acquitted of conspiracy in an alleged murder-for-hire plot to kill a former boyfriend.

Prosecutors alleged that Reynolds suffocated her son, Axel, by holding a cleansing wipe over his nose and mouth in May 2018. They alleged that she was driven by a drug addiction and desire to maintain an extra-martial affair and killed her son to get him out of the way.

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